Wednesday, 13 November 2013

2000AD - Low Life - Aimee Nixon

Hey, it's Aimee Nixon from 2000 ADs Low Life. Since I've been engaged in
my big 2000 AD read I have got to the point of reading back issues I
have never set eyes upon before. This was due to not purchasing any
copies for about five years. Sacrilege, I know. I have recently filled
that gap, so much of what I'm currently reading is new to me. Including
the start of the marvellous Low Life strips. It was nice to see those
early strips had a focus on Aimee Nixon and not Dirty Frank like in more
recent strips. So I decided to do some Low Life inspired artwork.

This
picture was yet another learning curve. One big lesson was - plan the
background at the start along with everything else. I really wanted to
include some of Mega-City One's skyline. My previous Mega-City One
picture has always left me disappointed and I have been really keen to
give it another shot. I decided to use this picture as a test to see
whether it would be worthwhile to have another crack at the future city.
I did have some difficulty planning the background, but after flicking
through my back issues I came up with this basic idea. Overall I am
happy with this picture on completion, but there are some problems that
were mainly due to the work flow - which wasn't well planned at all.

Low Life was created by Rob Williams and Henry Flint and is the property of 2000 AD.